GloZell

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American YouTube personality (born 1972)

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::summary American YouTube personality (born 1972) ::

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imageGloZell by Gage Skidmore.jpg
captionGloZell in 2014
birth_nameGloZell Lynette Green
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other_namesGloZell Simon
spouse
children1
years_active2003–present
alma_materUniversity of Florida (BFA)
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youtube_subscribers4.67 million
youtube_views863 million
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GloZell Lynette Green (born July 30, 1972), better known mononymously as GloZell, is an American YouTube personality. GloZell established her YouTube channel in 2008, with video interviews, comedy about her life and song parodies. By 2015, the channel had accumulated more than four million subscribers and more than 700 million total views. Her most popular videos include her cinnamon challenge video, which has accumulated more than 60 million views, and "My Push up Bra will help me get my man" video, with more than 25 million views. She gained wide notice when her blog about meeting Elijah Wood was mentioned by the actor during a 2011 interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. In 2012, she appeared in the web series Dr. Fubalous.

In 2015, GloZell interviewed President Barack Obama in a YouTube livestream hosted at the White House. In 2018, Green had a small role as Little Debbie in Ralph Breaks the Internet.

In December 2020, it was announced that Green would be hosting "The GloZell Show" with Million Stories Media.

Early life

GloZell was born to Gloria and Ozell Green, her name being a portmanteau of the names of her parents. She has one sister, DeOnzell, who is an opera singer. In 1997, GloZell graduated from the University of Florida with a BFA degree in musical theatre.

Career

In 2003, GloZell moved to Hollywood, California, to pursue a career in acting and comedy. She joined The Groundlings and studied her favorite comedian, Jay Leno, by attending 600 consecutive tapings of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She began a blog that included a series of interviews with other audience members at Leno's show, but she soon began using YouTube as a video host for the interviews. She began to create and post original comedy videos when people she met at Leno tapings told her that she was funny on her own. Her first viral YouTube video, in 2008, was "My Push up Bra will help me get my man"; by 2013, it had gained over 20 million views.

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In 2011, GloZell gained wider notice when her vlog about meeting Elijah Wood was mentioned by the actor during an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Her 2012 cinnamon challenge video became quickly popular As of 2016, it had amassed more than 48 million views. Also 2012, GloZell was featured alongside Danny Trejo and Flavor Flav and fellow YouTube personalities Antoine Dodson and Colleen Ballinger in the musical web series Dr. Fubalous, where GloZell played the titular doctor's "ranch dressing-loving secretary", Maude "Ma" Cakes.

GloZell has performed her stand-up act at such comedy venues as The Comedy Store, The Improv, the Laugh Factory, Showtime at the Apollo, Steve Harvey Talent Show, and the J. Anthony Brown's J Spot Comedy Club. She has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show, 20/20, ABC News and MTV and has been featured in The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, U.S. News & World Report, Ebony, Cosmopolitan, People and Forbes magazines, among other media. She has also published a book of inspirational poems called Wait! Let Me Tell You.

In May 2013, GloZell released her first single, titled "Pick Up After Your Dog", on the iTunes Store, and the music video was soon released on YouTube. She released her second single, "Glozell's Cinnamon Challenge", later in May. By 2013, GloZell's YouTube channel had received more than 400 million total views, with 2.7 million subscribers, and was ranked the 25th most viewed comedy channel on YouTube. By 2015, the channel had accumulated more than 4 million subscribers and more than 700 million views.

On January 22, 2015 GloZell interviewed Barack Obama in a YouTube livestream hosted at The White House. She talked to him about, among other issues, racial profiling and officer-involved shootings, relations with Cuba and cybersecurity. At the end of the interview she handed Obama green lipstick to give to the first lady and their children, but misspoke saying, "One for your first wife…" resulting in some laughs from the audience in the room. GloZell made a guest appearance in the Nickelodeon sitcom Game Shakers and played a role in the 2015 film The Wedding Ringer. She plays the voice role of Grandma Rosiepuff in DreamWorks' animated film Trolls. She also has a docuseries, Glo All In, about her and her husband's quest to have a child, ultimately with a surrogate mother.

In June 2016, GloZell released an autobiography, Is You Okay?, written in collaboration with Nils Parker.

In 2018, Green had a small role as Little Debbie in Ralph Breaks the Internet.

In 2025, GloZell was featured on Season 29 of Worst Cooks in America, eliminated in the fourth episode.

Personal life

On August 9, 2013, GloZell married her manager, Kevin Simon. On August 4, 2016, they had a daughter, O'Zell Gloriana De Green Simon, via surrogacy. In 2020, GloZell announced that she had divorced Simon.

References

References

  1. (4 June 2015). "GloZell and Rob fix Wikipedia I The Creator Show".
  2. (17 March 2013). "GloZell Uses Age, Experience, and #Green To Ascend YouTube". Tubefilter, Inc.
  3. https://www.facebook.com/glozell/posts/i-talk-about-my-divorce-single-motherhood-financial-difficulties-with-josh-skinn/3650151998336209/ {{Webarchive. link. (2023-11-23 {{User-generated source). (March 2022)
  4. "GloZell Green on Twitter". Twitter.
  5. Holcomb, Alyssa. (February 23, 2012). "GloZell talks YouTube, Gator dreams and cinnamon battles". [[The Independent Florida Alligator]].
  6. Kitchener, Shaun. (March 17, 2012). "YouTube Sensation GloZell: 'If I Meet One Direction I'm Going To Jail!'". Giant Digital.
  7. [https://www.youtube.com/user/glozell1/about "Glozell Green: About"] {{Webarchive. link. (2018-01-10 , YouTube, accessed August 27, 2014)
  8. Champ, Sarah. (March 10, 2011). "Q & A: Glozell Green". [[University Daily Kansan]].
  9. link. (2012-09-15 , YouTube, accessed January 30, 2018)
  10. "YouTuber GloZell Recalls How She Went Broke, Shares Her Advice for Young Creators (Exclusive)".
  11. Venerable, Dana. (June 1, 2010). "Internet Meme of the Week: GloZell Green Revisited". [[The Dartmouth]].
  12. GloZell. (June 8, 2012). "Live Green... Google GloZell1 on You Tube". Glozelllovesjayleno.blogspot.com.
  13. Vigil-Romero, Andrae. (June 20, 2011). "YouTube Sensation GloZell Green Takes On The World". UCLAradio.com.
  14. (May 16, 2007). "L.A. woman is a repeat Jay-watcher". [[Chicago Tribune]].
  15. (April 26, 2012). "Internet Meme of the Week: GloZell Green". [[The Dartmouth]].
  16. (September 7, 2011). "Elijah Wood on Jimmy Kimmel Live PART 2". [[Jimmy Kimmel Live!]].
  17. In June 2012, she was featured in the video ''Beauty and the Beat'' by [[Todrick Hall]], which reimagines the opening of ''[[Beauty and the Beast (1991 film). Disney's Beauty and the Beast]]'', in which Belle lives in an urban [[African-American neighborhood]].Hall, Todrick. [http://mashable.com/2012/06/27/beauty-beat-video/ "Beauty and the Beat"] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-07-07 , June 2012, accessed January 14, 2013)
  18. Henderson Nia-Malika. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/01/15/meet-the-green-lipstick-wearing-youtube-star-who-will-interview-president-obama "This is the green-lipstick-wearing YouTube star who will interview President Obama today"] {{Webarchive. link. (2015-12-21 , ''[[The Washington Post]]'', January 22, 2015, accessed June 7, 2016)
  19. Villarreal, Yvonne. [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-ct-vidcon-glozell-20140630-story.html "GloZell Green, YouTube sensation, stars at VidCon too"] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-06-13 , ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', June 30, 2014, accessed June 7, 2016)
  20. Schwab, Nikki. [https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/01/21/who-are-the-youtube-stars-interviewing-president-obama "Who Are the YouTube Stars Interviewing President Obama?"] {{Webarchive. link. (2018-03-07 , ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'', January 21, 2015, accessed June 7, 2016)
  21. Each year since 2013, GloZell has hosted a free live variety show called GloZell Fest, with celebrity and YouTube guests including [[Sisaundra Lewis]], Meghan Tonjes, [[Frankie Grande]], [[Miranda Sings]] and Far Young.Kelly, Rock. [http://blogs.orlandoweekly.com/the-gist/glozellfest-2014-rolls-orlando/ GloZell Fest 2014 rolls into Orlando"] {{Webarchive. link. (2014-10-13 , ''Orlando Weekly'', October 10, 2014)
  22. [http://glittermagrocks.com/connect/2015/09/14/3rd-annual-glozell-festival "3rd Annual GloZell Festival"] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-05-02 , ''Glitter Magazine'', September 14, 2015)
  23. Green, GloZell. [https://www.amazon.com/Wait-Let-Me-Tell-You/dp/1939748445 ''Wait! Let Me Tell You''] {{Webarchive. link. (2015-10-30 , Certa Publishing (2014) {{ISBN). 1939748445
  24. (2013-05-05). "iTunes – Music – Pick up After Your Dog – Single by GloZell Green". [[iTunes]].
  25. (22 May 2013). "Pick Up After Your Dog (Official Music Video) GloZell". YouTube.
  26. (26 May 2013). "iTunes – Music – GloZell's Cinnamon Challenge – Single by GloZell Green". [[iTunes]].
  27. {{usurped. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120615185111/http://vidstatsx.com/youtube-top-100-most-viewed-comedy "YouTube Top 100 Most Viewed Comedy Video Producers"], VidStatsX.com, accessed November 26, 3013
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  29. The White House. "The YouTube Interview with President Obama". Google Inc.
  30. "YouTube Star GloZell Green Accidentally Called Out Obama's 'First Wife'". ABC News Internet Ventures.
  31. Nolfi, Joey. [http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/07/glozell-green-interview-is-you-okay "YouTube star GloZell: My new book is 'making reading great again!'"] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-06-08 , EW.com, June 7, 2016)
  32. GloZell. (January 6, 2016). "HAIR we Go! Meet Grandma Rosiepuff! So glad to voice one of the #DreamWorksTolls xoxo – GloZell ( I'm @JustinTimberlake 's Grandma!!!! )". Facebook.
  33. Sander, Brice. [http://www.etonline.com/news/184030_glozell_baby_exclusive "Exclusive: YouTube Star GloZell Green Reveals Biggest Fear About Becoming a Mom: I Just Hope the Kid Thinks I’m Funny"] {{Webarchive. link. (2016-06-01 , ETonline.com, March 8, 2016)
  34. "GloZell Green: YouTube Star Pregnant". [[People (magazine).
  35. link. (2018-11-19 , MSN, November 15, 2018)
  36. Burke, Sammi. (2025-07-10). "‘Worst Cooks in America’ Fans React to ‘Iconic’ Casting News for Anne Burrell’s Final Season".
  37. "Log into Facebook – Facebook". Facebook.
  38. (2010-08-05). "GloZell Green Welcomes Daughter O'Zell Gloriana De". [[People (magazine).
  39. (26 April 2022). "Jonah and the Whale on Apple Podcasts".

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